Become A Partner in Hope with St. Jude & WJBC

Posted on February 8, 2018

Become A Partner in Hope with St. Jude & WJBC

The majority of money to operate St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital comes from donors just like you. Please join WJBC in the fight against childhood cancer. Become a Partner in Hope by pledging just $20 a month. Put your gift on a credit card and you’ll get the awesome new THIS SHIRT SAVES LIVES t-shirt. Call 1-800-374-4995 or you can text TEAM to 785833 and click the link from St. Jude to donate.

St. Jude is on the cutting-edge of the latest medicine and research in fighting life-threatening pediatric diseases such as cancer. What is the most amazing thing is that the cost of this world-class care comes at no cost to the families.

NO FAMILY EVER RECEIVES A BILL FROM ST. JUDE.

Whatever the insurance companies don’t cover is taken care of by St. Jude. The only thing the families have to focus on is being there for their child during this battle.

An amazing 75% of the $2 million a day cost to save these children is covered through donations from people just like YOU!

YOU can become part of the St. Jude Family for very little cost by becoming a Partner In Hope for just $20 a month!

That small amount of money from you each month brings the children HOPE that they will get to live a long life and chase their dreams.

The fight is not only to save those children fighting cancer now, but also to find a cure so that no child ever loses their life to cancer again.

Become a Partner in Hope by pledging just $20 a month to help kids at St. Jude fight cancer. Put your gift on a credit card and you’ll get the awesome new THIS SHIRT SAVES LIVES t-shirt. Call 1-800-374-4995 or you can text TEAM to 785833 and click the link from St. Jude to donate.

Remember … Because of YOU, There Is ST. JUDE.

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